Recession? You're kidding

Submitted by Carolyn Ten Broeck on Sat, 12/11/2010 - 12:23am

If there's a recession, someone forgot to tell all the people who flocked to Gainesville in the middle of the day Friday.

I worked half day and then drove to the mall to pick up something that I can't get locally. Then I decided to travel over to Archer Road to the craft store to pick up my daughter some clay--her new medium of choice.

It took me 30 minutes to drive from one parking lot to another...a normal 10 minute trip. I spent 20 minutes of that 30 minute journey either stalled in bumper to bumper traffic or looking for a parking spot.

Where do these people come from? I wondered. Why aren't the children in school? Does everyone have a flexible job schedule that lets them shop in the middle of a work day? And where is all the money coming from?

People were shopping and spending like it was income tax refund time. And the restaurants! Goodness! Lines everywhere.